Beer Guide 2013: Best Beer Grocers

5 grocery stores with great beer.

Stretching nearly a city block, the
Southeast Hawthorne Fred Meyer store is known for having possibly the
best beer selection of any American grocery store which also cuts house
keys, employs an in-house chocolatier and sells camcorders.

On a hot summer day, the Jamison Square
fountain is the busiest place in the Pearl. Instead, you’ll find us
here, chillin’ in the massive walk-in beer cave, pretending to be
spending 15 minutes deciding between Full Sail ESB and BridgePort IPA.

Probably owing to its relative affluence,
our fair Southwest quadrant is wine country. While the Zupans market on
Macadam does more to trumpet its fine selection of wines and cheeses,
they’ve also got plenty of suds. When a hot one-off is sold out
elsewhere, look here.

The beer selection at New Seasons stores
tends to be both solid and consistent. Cider and humdrum organic
offerings get a lot of shelf space in keeping with the store’s mission,
but a steady stream of seasonals keeps your interest.

Servicing rich people who climb down from the hills to buy
expensive things on lazy Saturdays, this OWLI (Outer Westside Light
Industrial) neighborhood grocery has only three coolers of beer, but
there’s no filler. Self-distributed local favorites like Logsdon make a
point of driving their brew here.